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THE HOUSE OF DRUMMOND. 229
valiant men ; untill William the tenth Lord Douglas, whom King
David Bruce made Earle of Douglas in the field, that day whereupon
the unfortunat batle of Durham was fought. William, the firft Earle
of Douglas, by marrying of tuo heretrixes, to wit, Margaret Marr
and Margaret Stuart, was by right of them Earle of Marr and Earle
of Angus. From this Earle William there fprung the tuo great
families of the Douglaffes ; of the firft wife were the Earles of
Douglas, and of the laft, to wit, Margaret Stuart, the Earles of
Angus. By the firft wife, Margaret Mar, he had a daughter, Lady
Ifibbella Douglas, who fell to be heretrix of Mar ; fhe married firft
Malcolm Drummond, Senefchal of Lennox, who was by her right
Earle of Mar, but had no children.
A List of the Earles of Douglas.
The firft Earle William, of whom we have now fpoken, was the e. of Douglas.
fone of Archbald Earle of Galloway, the third brother of good Sir
James, the eighth Lord Douglas, who was flaine by the Saracens in
Spaine ; for William fucceeded to his uncle Hugh, the ninth Lord
Douglas, who was the fecond brother of good Sir James.
2. James, the fone of William. He married Euphame Stuart,
daughter to King Robert the fecond, whom he begot upon the Earle
of Rofs' daughter, bot had no children. He dyed victorious at that
bloody fight of Otterburn in Northumberland.
3. Archbald, the brother of James, called Archbald the Grim. He
married the only daughter of Thomas Murray, Lord of Bothwell, and
got with her the lands of Bothwell, &c. He dyed anno 1400. 1400.
4. Archbald, called Tynman, the fone of Grim Archbald He

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